St. Landry democrat., 1887-10-15

off track but few ever get on again. Near
my summer residence there is life say
ing station on the beach. There are all
the ropes and rockets, the boats, the ma
chinery for getting people off shipwrecks.
Summer before last | saw there fifteen
or twenty men who were breakfasting,
after having just escaped with their lives
and nothing more. Up and down our
coasts are built these useful structures,
and the mariners know it, and they feel
that if they are driven into the breakers
there will be apt from shore to come a
rescue. The churches of God ought to
be so many llfe-saVing stations, not so
much to help those who are in smooth
waters, but those who have been ship
wrecked. Come let us run out the life
! boats ! And who viii man them? We
do not preach enough to such men; we
have not enough faith in their release
Alas, If when they come to hear US, we
are 1abOriOusly trying to show the differ
ence between Sublapsarianism and Su-
pralapsarianism, while they have a thou
sand vipers of remorse and despair coiling
around and biting their immortal spirits.
The church is not chiefly for goodish
sort Of men whose prOClivities are all
/ right, and who could get to Heaven
! praying and singing in their own homes.
/ 1t Is on the beach to help the drowning.
! Those bad cases are the cases that God
! likes to take hold of. He can save big
sinner as well as a small sinner, and
when man calls earnestly to
| God for help He will go out to
deliver such one. If it were
necessary God would come down from
the sky, followed by all the artillery of
Heaven and million angels with drawn
swords. Get one hundred such redeemed
men in each Of your churches, and moth
ing could stand before them, for such
men are generally warm hearted and en-
thuslastlc. No formal prayers then. No
heartless singing then No cold conyen-
tlOnalisms then.
Furthermore, the destitute children of
the street offer field of work compara-
lively unoccupied. The uncared-for
children are in the majority in Brooklyn
and most of our cities. When they grow
up, if unreformed, they will outvote
your children and they will govern your
children The Whiskey ring will hatch out
other Whlskcy rings and grogshops will
kill with their horrid stencil public
sObriety, unless the church of God rises
up with Outstretched arms and enfolds
MS Ny my pOpuldtlou Ill ucI DOSOn. J
Public schools cannot do it. Art gal
leries cannot do it. Blackwell's Island
cannot do it. Almshouses cannot do it.
New York Tombs and Raymond street
Jail cannot do it, Sing Sing cannot do .
it. Church of God, wake up TO your .
magnificent mission You can do it. /
Get somewhere, somehow to work
The Prussian cavalry mount by putting
their rIrhf foot tho Stirr,I, bila
the American cavalry mount by putting
their left foot into the stlrrup. | don't
care how you mount your war charger,
If you only get into this battle for God
and get there soon right stirrup, or left
stlrrup, or TO stirrup at all The un- +
occupied fields are all around US, and
why should we build on another mans
That God has called this
church to especial work no one can
doubt. Its history has been miracu-
lous. God has helped us at every
step, and though the wheels of its
history have made many revolutions,
hey have all been forward, and never
backward, and now with our borders en-
arged and with important reinforce
nents, we start on new campaign. At |
sharon Springs, nineteen years ago,
Walking in the park, | asked God if lie
lad any particular work for me to do, to
make it plain and | would do it. He re-
ealed to me the style of church we /
we're to have, and He revealed to
ne the architecture, and He revealed
me the modes of worship, and He re- t
called to me my work, and, as far as in '
~ ignorance and weakness | have seen
he right way, have tried to walk in it,
e decided that we wanted it soul-say-
lg church, and it has been almost a con-
amt outpouring of the Holy Ghost. Ne
overs of darkness, We devils in hell
e mean to snatch from your domin-
N other multitudes, if God will help
5. | have heard of what was called
le "thundering legion" 1t was in 119,
part OF the Roman army to which
'me Christians belonged, and their
rayers, it was said, were answered by
under and lightning and hail and tenn
est, which overthrew an invading army
I'd saved the empire. And | would to
od that this church may be so mighty
prayer and work that it would be-
'me laundering legion before which
e forces of sin might be routed, and
e gates Of hell might tremble.
oW that the autumn has come, and
e Gospel Ship has been re-
llred and enlarged, it is time
launch her for another voyage. Heave
Vay now, lads Shake out the reefs in
e foretopsail Come, O heavenly
nd, and fill the canvas Jesus aboard
II assure our safety. Jesus on the sea
IL beckon US forward Jesus on the
ining shore will welcome us into har-
+. And so it came to pass that they
escaped safe to land"
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